Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Zambia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Grauzone to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Angels of Light,
Glenn Branca,
Delta 5,
Urselle,
Pole,
The Smoke,
Funkadelic,
Tim Buckley,
Sound Behaviour,
The Barracudas,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
JFA,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Wake,
Neil Young,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bobby Womack,
Mantronix,
Michelle Simonal,
Silicon Teens,
Sister Nancy,
The American Breed,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Vladislav Delay,
Terry Callier,
The Fall,
Kerri Chandler,
The Cowsills,
Henry Cow,
Marc Almond,
Jacques Brel,
Radio Birdman,
Symarip,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Fugs,
Fear,
The Grass Roots,
Joy Division,
The Victims,
EPMD,
Banda Bassotti,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rekid,
Television,
The Birthday Party,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Television Personalities,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Brick,
FM Einheit,
The Golliwogs,
Shuggie Otis,
Barbara Tucker,
Jeru the Damaja,
DJ Style,
Laurel Aitken,
Mad Mike,
Cal Tjader,
Sparks,
Godley & Creme,
Archie Shepp,
Jacob Miller,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.